Psalms 14:1

The practical atheist who lives as if there is no God is a moral fool, and such denial corrupts the whole life. It matters because rejecting God is at root a problem of the heart, not merely the intellect.

Cross-references · 29

• Ps 10:4In his pride the wicked man does not seek Him; in all his schemes there is no God.
• Ps 53:1For the choirmaster. According to Mahalath. A Maskil of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt; their ways are vile. There is no one who does good.
• Rom 3:10–12As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one.
• Rom 1:21–32For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts.
• Ps 92:6A senseless man does not know, and a fool does not understand,
• Eph 2:1–3And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,
• Prov 1:7The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.
• Matt 12:34You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks.
• Gen 6:5Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the time.
• Luke 12:20But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be required of you. Then who will own what you have accumulated?’
• Matt 15:19For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, and slander.
• Ps 94:4–8They pour out arrogant words; all workers of iniquity boast.
• Prov 13:19Desire fulfilled is sweet to the soul, but turning from evil is detestable to fools.
• Gen 6:11–12Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and full of violence.
• Prov 27:22Though you grind a fool like grain with mortar and a pestle, yet his folly will not depart from him.
• Titus 3:3For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.
• John 3:19–20And this is the verdict: The Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness rather than the Light because their deeds were evil.
• Eph 2:12remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.
• 1 Sam 25:25My lord should pay no attention to this scoundrel Nabal, for he lives up to his name: His name means Fool, and folly accompanies him. I, your servant, did not see my lord’s young men whom you sent.
• Ps 36:1–4For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, the servant of the LORD. An oracle is in my heart regarding the transgression of the wicked man: There is no fear of God before his eyes.
• Isa 1:4Alas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children of depravity! They have forsaken the LORD; they have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on Him.
• Titus 1:16They profess to know God, but by their actions they deny Him. They are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good deed.
• Ps 107:17Fools, in their rebellious ways, and through their iniquities, suffered affliction.
• Ps 52:1–6For the choirmaster. A Maskil of David. After Doeg the Edomite went to Saul and told him, “David has gone to the house of Ahimelech.” Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man? The loving devotion of God endures all day long.
• Rev 21:8But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”
• Job 22:13Yet you say: ‘What does God know? Does He judge through thick darkness?
• Prov 1:22“How long, O simple ones, will you love your simple ways? How long will scoffers delight in their scorn and fools hate knowledge?
• Job 15:16how much less man, who is vile and corrupt, who drinks injustice like water?
• Ps 73:3For I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

Each word below is tagged with its Strong’s number — tap one to see the underlying Hebrew word, its meaning, and every verse that uses it.